10 Non-AEW Stars Who Should Challenge For The TNT Championship

6. EFFY

2020 is a dark place. Plagues, protests and politics have dominated, and the impact of a multi-month lockdown has yet to truly be felt. Professional wrestling has suffered in its own way, with the initial curiosity of the empty-arena shows soon giving way to frustration and apathy before the #speakingout movement revealed the toxic abuse prevalent in the UK scene. It has been a rough year, to say the least.

We need a hero. Who better than EFFY? The fishnet-clad Florida native is one of the few openly gay performers in the pro wrestling world, and the 'openly gay' there should be bolded, underlined and written in all the colours of the damn rainbow. EFFY is flamboyant all heck, but don't let the pomp and circumstance lull you into a false sense of security; EFFY will beat you to a pulp.

EFFY's 2019 match with Nick Gage was one of the most entertaining of last year, a match worth going out of your way to seek out. His social media promos are the best in the game, and EFFY has consistently shown that he can work a variety of styles in a variety of settings. He is made for television. AEW should be doing all it can to sign him.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.